Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-12-02

you take your diploma from the
Long Island Medical College to look after
the perishable tody, DO sure also to get a di-
ploma from the skies to look after the imper-
ishab.e soul Let all Christian physicians
unite with ministers of this Gospel in persuad-
ing good people that it Is not because God is
against them that they sometimes feel de-
pressed, but because of their diseased body.
Another practical use o. this subject is for
the young. The theory Is abroad that they
must first sow their wild oats, and afterward
Michigan wheat. Let me break the delusion.
Wild oats are generally sown in the liver,
and they can never be pulled up. They so
preoccupy that organ that there is no room
| for the imp!antation Of righteous crop.
ou sea aged men about US at 81 erecC,
agile, splendid, grand old men. How much
wild oats did they SOW between Is years and
S0' None, absolGts none God does not
very often honor with old age those who
have in early life sacrificed swine on the
altar of the bodily temple. Remember, o,
young man, that while in after life and after
years Of dissipation you siiay perhaps have
your heart charged, Nliglon does not
change the liver. Trembling and stag
gering along these streets to-day are
men, all bent and decayed and pre-
maturely old for the reason that they are
paying for liens they put upon their physical
estate before they were 60 BY early dissipa-
tion they Put on their body a first mortgage,
and a second mortgage, and third mort
gage to the devil, and these mortgages are
now being foreclose1, and all that remains of
their earthly estate the undertaken will
soon put out of sight. Many years ago
in fu|fillment of my text, dart struck
through their liver, and it is there yet God
forgives, but outraged physical law never,
never, never. That has Sinai, but no Cal
vary. Solomon in my text knew what he
was talking about He had in early life
been prohigate, and he rises up on his
throne of worldly splendor to shrek out
warning to all th9 centuries. David, bad in
early life, but good in later life, cries out
with an agony OF earnestness Remember
not the sins of my youth"
Stephen A. Doug as gave the name of
squatter sovereignty to those who went ont
| West and took possession of lands and held
them by right Of preoccupation. Let
flock of sins settle on your heart before you
get to 25 years of age, and they will in all
| probability keep possession Of it by an in
formal squatter sovereignty 81 prom
ise to pay az the bank $500 six months
from date" says the promssory nots- II
promise to ply my life thirty years from
date at the hank of the grave" says every
infraction of the law Of your physical
| being.
What Will mans body never COM
! pletey recover from an early dissipation in
| this wordl Never How about the world
to come! Perhaps God will fix it up i'll the
resurrection body 50 that it will not have to
! go limping through all eternity, but get the
liver thoroughly damaged aud it will stay
| damaged. Physicians cali it cancer OF the
! liver, or hardening OF the liver or cirrhosis
| OF the liver, or Inflammation Of the liver, or
| fatty degeneration of the liver, Dut Solomon
puts IL these pangs into one figure and says:
| It'll the dart strike through his liver"
That young man smoking cigarettes and
smoking cigars has no idea that he is getting
for himself smoked liver. That young man
has no idea that he has by early dissipation
| so depleted his energies that he will go into
the battle only half armed Napoleon lost
Waterloo days before it was fought Had he
attacked the English army before it was re-
| enforced, and taken it division by division,
he might have won the day, but he waited
until he had only 100, 600 men against 20), ,OOO
| And here is young man who ii he put all
his forces against the regiment OF youthful
| temptations in the strength Of God he might
drive them back, but be is allowing them to
| be reinforced by the whole army OF mid lie
temptations, and when all these combined
forces are massed against him and no Grouchy
comes to help him, and Bluncher has come to
help his foes, what but immortal defeat can
await him!
Some years ago scientific lecturer went
through the country exhibiting on great
canvas different parts of the human body
when healthy and different parts when dis
easel. And what tie world wants now ia
some eloquent scientist to 60 through the
country showing to our young people on
blazing canvas the drunkard's liver, the
idler's liver, the libertine's liver, the gam
b.ers liver Perhaps the spectacle might
stop some young man before he comes to the
same catastrophe, and the dart strike through
his own liver.
My hearer, this is the first sermon You have
heard on the gospel of health, and it may be
the lastyou will ever hear on that subject; and
| charge you, in the name Of God and Christ,
and usefulness and eternal destiny, take bet
ter care of your health. When some of you
die, if your friends put on your tombstone a
truthful epitaph it will read: Here lies the
victim of late supLerS," or it will be: BE
hold what chicken salad at midnight will do
for man." or it will be: Ten cigars a
day closed my earthly existence" or it
Will be-: Sat down in cold draught
and this is the result" or it will
be: II died OF thin shoes last winter" or it
will be: "Went out without an overcoat and
took this last chill" or it will be: Thought
l could do at 20 what did at 20. and | am
here" or it will be- "Here is the conse-
quence of sitting a half day with wet feet;
or it will be: '"Hhis is where have stacked
my harvest Of wild oats;n or instead OF
words the stone cutter will chisel for an
epitaph on the tombstone two figures, name
ly q dart and a liver.
There is kind of sickness that is beautiful
!, | Wnen III COMES lTOn OV6rWOrK lOT OOu, Vi
ones country, or ones own family. / have
seen wounds that were glorious. After the
battle of Antietam, in the hospital soldier
in reply to my question: :"Where are you
hurtN uncovered his bosom and showed me e
cash that looked like badge Of eternal no
bility. have seen an empty sleeve that was
more beautiful than the most muscular fore
arm. have seen a green shade over the eye
SHOT out in battle that was more beautiful
than any two eyes that had passed without
injury. | have seen an old missionary worr
out with the malaria Of African junges whC
, looked to me more radiant than a ruhicunC
gymnaSt / have seen mother after siS
weeks watching over family of children
down with scarlet fever with a glory round
her pale and wan face that surpassed the an
gelic. 1t all depends on how you got YOU
) sickness and in what battle your wounds.
My Lord and my God if we must get sicf
and worn out let it be in thy service, and il
the effort to make the world good and happy
) Not in the service OF sin. No! No
One OF the most pathethic scenes tina
| ever witnessed, and l often see it, il
that of men or women converted in tn
tifties or sixties or seventies wanting to b
useful, but they SO served the world ant
Satan in the earlier Iart of their life tina
they have no physical energy left for the ser
) vice of God. They sacrificed nerves, muscles
,, lungs, heart and liver on the wrong altar
They fought on the wrong side, and now
when their sword is all hacked up an,
their ammunition all gone, they enlis
: for Emmanuel When their high met
,, tied cavalry horse, which they spurret
| into many a cavalry charge will
champing bit and flaming eye and necl
: clothed with thunder, is worn out and spav
ined, and ring -boned, and, springhalt, he ride
! up to the Captain of our salvation OIL
the white horse and offers his services. Whe
such persous might have been, through til
t good habits of lifetime, crashing the battl
+ ak through helmeted iniquities, they ar
! spending their days and nights in discussin